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Steve Hsu

Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Join him for wide-ranging conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.

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174 episodes

  1. AI and Mathematics, from Beijing – #123 36:06
  2. AI Boom or Bust? – #122 39:31
  3. Effort News and AI-Driven Journalism with Brian Chau – #121 1:11:05
  4. Machine God: Hsu, Greer, Huang – #120 1:14:34
  5. How to Build a Research Institute: Thomas Fink of the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences – #119 1:00:33
  6. Venture Capital and Technology in China with Bohan Lou – #118 1:05:46
  7. Iran, AI, and the Third World War (Crossover with Seeking Truth From Facts Podcast) – #117 52:44
  8. State of AI, Summer 2026 – #116 51:33
  9. Beff Jezos and Effective Accelerationism: Machine God of Loving Grace – #115 1:40:57
  10. Razib Khan at Manifest 2026: Genetic Discoveries, AI, and Academia – #114 1:20:32
  11. Letter from Beijing 2: Tsinghua University – #113 1:21:08
  12. AI Billionaire on Existential Risk: Jaan Tallinn – #112 1:40:41
  13. Embryo Selection and Frontier Genomics with Dr. Alex Young – #111 1:30:58
  14. Iran War is the First Missile War (crossover with Seeking Truth From Facts podcast) – #110 49:27
  15. Dreamers and Doomers: Our AI future, with Richard Ngo – #109 1:51:31
  16. China, Acceleration, and Nick Land - with Matt Southey – #108 1:03:38
  17. Shenzhen is the Technology Capital of the World, with Taylor Ogan – #107 1:11:21
  18. AI DOOM: Jesse Hoogland of Timaeus 1:42:37
  19. Dreamers and Doomers: Jeremy Nixon at AGI House – #105 2:14:19
  20. Industrial Maximalism and Its Discontents: Dan Wang on US-China Competition – # 104 1:24:55
  21. Geopolitics 2026, crossover with Seeking Truth From Facts podcast – #103 47:47
  22. Polygenics and Machine SuperIntelligence; Billionaires, Philo-semitism, and Chosen Embryos – #102 1:00:12
  23. Theoretical Physics With Generative AI – #101 1:12:44
  24. Jeffrey Epstein, Israel, and Elite Power, with Murtaza Hussain – #100 1:03:14
  25. Jian Lian on China's Industrial Policy and Global Strategy – #99 1:12:43
  26. Scott Horton on the Russia Hoax and Ukraine War – #98 1:25:35
  27. AIs Win Math Olympiad Gold: Prof. Lin Yang (UCLA) – #97 50:43
  28. The Global AI Race: Z.ai and the View from Beijing — #96 1:06:35
  29. Seeking Truth From Facts: Weeks Where Decades Happen — #95 48:49
  30. Kyle Chan on the Future of US-China Competition — #94 1:10:51
  31. Joleen Liang: 40M+ kids educated by adaptive AI — #93 59:07
  32. Max Dama on HFT: Millisecond Algos and Bid/Ask Dynamics — #92 54:46
  33. Andrew Song: Global Cooling with Sulfur Dioxide in the Stratosphere — #91 1:04:37
  34. Manifold Discord Channel: Live Q&A with Steve — #90 54:45
  35. Omar Shams: AI Founder and Google AI Agent Lead — #89 1:05:29
  36. Patrick McGee: Apple In China — #88 59:33
  37. GODZILLA DOWN! India-Pakistan Clash and Chinese Military Technology with TP Huang — #87 1:02:24
  38. Robots, Small Models, and RL with DeepSeek Alumnus Zihan Wang — #86 1:07:22
  39. Dan Collins: Tariffs and the Future of US Manufacturing — #85 1:18:03
  40. Seeking Truth From Facts: AI, China, Tariffs, Geopolitics — #84 45:42
  41. Incels, Evo Psych, and Modern Literature with ARX-Han — #83 1:25:16
  42. Callum Williams: Economics, AI, and Technological Progress — #82 1:46:14
  43. Misha Laskin, Reflection.ai — From Physics to SuperIntelligence 53:48
  44. Taylor Ogan, Snow Bull Capital: China's tech frontier, the view from Shenzhen, Part 2 1:25:38
  45. Ken Liu: Art in the Age of AI — #79 1:07:05
  46. US-PRC Tech War: DeepSeek AI and 6th Generation Fighters — #78 2:01:54
  47. Jim Haslam: Covid Origins and Coronavirus Genetic Engineering — #77 1:55:33
  48. Joscha Bach: Consciousness and AGI — #76 1:21:42
  49. Adventures in Physics, Trump, and more, with the Information Theory podcast — #75 1:19:03
  50. Pascal Lottaz: Neutrality, Geopolitics, and International Conflict — #74 1:37:13